Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments

During the past three decades, Francis Boyle has dealt with some of themost difficult problems created by Britain's continued military occupation ofsix northeast counties in Ireland: * Proving that the Potato Famine was really British genocide againstthe Irish;* Britain's obligation to decolonize Northern Ireland;* I.R.A. resistance and Joe Doherty;* the anti-Irish U.S.-U.K. Supplementary Extradition Treaty (1986) andU.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty (2006); and* the MacBride Principles on Northern Ireland; the Great Grandson ofMajor John MacBride; etc. The book concludes with a legal and human rights framework forestablishing a United Ireland where all Irish can live in peace with justicefor all irrespective of their differences. This book is required reading for Irish Americans, people living in Ireland, and the Irish Diaspora around the world.